goMyPlace remote access system

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goMyPlace remote access system
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Access OS command shell

• Jane is a Unix system administrator in the
  BusySoftware company. She frequently executes OS
  commands from her PDA/cell phone while out of the
  office. SSH/VPN is not always available.
  goMyPlace requires only a regular WEB browser on
  the client side. goMyPlace works with WAP and
  SMS messages.

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Ring tone

• Jim is a 10 years old son of Jane. Jim finally
  got his own cell phone. Jim decides to replace
  the default ring tone by MP3 file stored on his
  father's Mac at home. He enters WEB browser on
  the cell phone and in two clicks pulls the file.
  He uses free goMyPlace service.

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E-mail with large attachment

• John works in the technical support of
  BusySoftware. Today he has to send an e-mail to
  one of the customers with attached binary image
  of approximately 300M. He puts a static URL
  referencing the file on his desktop in the
  office. John sends the e-mail with the link from
  his favourite PDA.

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File access in LAN

• Jane has 4 computers at home 2 Linux
  desktops, one Mac for the graphic works of her
  husband and one Win32 machine where Jim runs
  games. After struggle with Samba, NETBios and NFS
  she installed goMyPlace software on all computers
  at home. On one of the Linux servers she runs
  open source version of goMyPlace Proxy server.
  All files are available on all machines without
  any additional configurations. Jane is a
  goMyPlace beta tester and always use bleeding
  edge latest release.

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Blogging

• John is a blogger. Every weekend he adds a new
  post to his blog The cubicle escape. John paid
  6/month for the hosting service and had limited
  disk space on the server, not much of bandwidth.
  John switched to goMyPlace services. John's blog
  is limited by the size of disk on his desktop.
  John kept his domain name - goMyPlace proxy
  server does DNS redirection for free.

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Smart house

• Jane bought a new fridge. This is a latest
  model of Samdung fridge with Internet access and
  built-in bar code reader. Jane just loves to
  check what is in the fridge via WEB browser. To
  do the same from work she uses goMyPlace HTTP
  tunnel feature. Jane's home network remains
  protected by NAT and firewall. Jane's home IP
  address is hidden behind Jane's nickname on the
  goMyPlace proxy. Access to the fridge is in
  safety of the private section of Jane's account.

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Features

• Open source software runs on the user machine
• Service is free
• Static URL's which are friendly to search engines
• Better security than HTTP/FTP servers
• Simple network setup
• Access to the remote host requires only WEB
  browser (or WAP or just SMS)